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raised by the animals produced the appearance of a mighty army following, and the enemy, terrified by this imjiression, were defeated.-^
Myronides, the Athenian, when about to fight on an open plain against the Thebans, who were very strong in cavalry, warned his troops that, if they stood their ground, there was some hope of safety, but that, if thevgave way, destruction was absolutely certain. In this way he encouraged his men and won the victory.'-
When Gaius Pinarius was in charge of the garrison of Henna in Sicily, the magistrates of the city demanded the keys of the gates, which he had in liis keeping. Suspecting that they were preparing to go over to the Carthaginians, he asked for the space of a single night to consider the matter ; and, revealing to his soldiers the treachery of the Greeks, he instructed them to get ready and wait for his signal on the morrow. At daybreak, in the presence of his troops, he announced to the people of Henna that he would surrender the keys, if all the in- habitants of the town should be agreed in their view. When the entire populace assembled in the theatre to settle this matter, and, with the obvious purpose of revolting, made the same demand, Pinarius gave the signal to his soldiers and murdered all the people of Henna. ^
Iphicrates, the Athenian general, once rigged up his own fleet after the style of the enemy, and sailed away to a certain city whose people he viewed with suspicion. Being welcomed with unrestrained en- thusiasm, he thus discovered their treachery and sacked their town.^
When Tiberius Gracchus had proclaimed that he
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